Sunday, January 02, 2011

Happy New Year in 40 Languages!

Happy New Year everyone! I was thinking about how many people I know whose mother tongue is not English, and thought I'd like to try greeting them in their own language.

As a teenager, thanks to the encouragement of two brilliant French teachers, for a while I dreamed about becoming a linguist. (I also wanted to be a concert pianist, but it turned out I wasn't good enough at that either!)

Never mind - as Big Ben struck midnight in London and 2011 dawned, I began to wonder how many languages I could say Happy New Year in. Now, I'm definitely not a linguist and cannot guarantee that these are all grammatically correct, but if you'd like to try them yourself on your friends and neighbours, here are Happy New Year greetings in 40 different languages.....

So here's wishing you all a wonderfully prosperous, happy and healthy 2011!

I hope you will repeat this on New Year's Eve this year, Erika, then we can all amaze our friends. And if there are any 'native' speakers in our midst we'll probably amaze them with our pronunciation too.

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Erika ♥

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